Tag: Microsoft Office

Nuance announced the release of Dragon 12.5 today [shipping March 22nd] with greater enhance support for Microsoft products, such as, Windows 8, Microsoft Office 2013, Internet Explorer 10 and Outlook.com. As with each release of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Nuance is indicating that it’s faster and more accurate; ever improving. Dragon 12.5 premium allow you to control …

I found a fascinating trick today. I’ve been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for many years and I’ve also been using AutoHotKey for years. Both of these applications have massive pluses for use, but today I found something extraordinary. Let me start off by stating that using Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a massive benefit to being productive. it …

Mozilla Thunderbird continues to be one of my favorite applications as an email client. And although Mozilla has said that they’re not going to put as much effort into the development of Thunderbird, they have said that they are going to continue to provide Thunderbird with regular updates; they just want the community to become …

The last time I watched a video so attacking of something else, it had to do with politics; but Microsoft must really want to be in politics because what they unleashed on the public, to scare them from OpenOffice, was some impressive stuff. I’m not going to try to argue that Microsoft Office is better …

If you’re keeping track of the technology trends in the market you’ll notice that Google’s Android is really making a name for itself and establishing itself as the dominant operating system. The development and saturation of the operating system have been impressive to say the least. It’s a weird feeling to be in a situation …

I really enjoy Working with AutoHotKey; It’s an awesome tool. The beauty of the application/scripting language is to find things that are repetitive and then if it’s something that can be scripted- do it. So if you’ve got to use Microsoft Communicator at work to set your status in and out of the office every …

With Windows Live Writer 2010 looking like it’s going to be a few more months away from release, it’s looking unimpressive right now. Windows Live Writer is the best blogging tool out there, but it’s development is so slow; it’s depressing. It’s no wonder Internet Explorer is taking such a beating. If you were paying …

I’m not going to argue the point that Microsoft Outlook is a very popular email client, and it’s the most used, and desired, function of Microsoft Office, but I think at what cost are we using it? Microsoft Office/Outlook 2007 is not my email client of choice, but I’ve to use it at work. Every …

One of the biggest questions I’ve had for a while now is, why does Microsoft have so many darn versions of their Operating System? From a tech support standpoint, it’s a nightmare. Just from my experience, when I’ve asked people which Operating System their using [knowing they’re using Windows] I’ve had people tell me Microsoft …

Here’s some stuff I’ve been looking at… Just one more day to be a home owner again. I’ve say in the couch, bed & my desk… everything else is my wife’s projects. Ah pretty colors. [#] Reading: New FCC chief draws a line in the sand on net neutrality | Tech Policy & Law News …

Review: Nuance PDF Converter Enterprise 7 [Awesome]Nuance has just released their latest version of their PDF converter Enterprise. Nuance is most popular for it’s voice recognition [Dragon NaturallySpeaking] and imaging software, such as [Omnipage/PaperPort]. They recently released a free version of ...

How To Uninstall Windows Live WriterI’m not saying that I need to, or that it’s an issue, but in the case that you decide you’re going to move to something more elaborate, or if you just need to be able ...

Google+ hangouts: Odd settingsPeople are always using functions and website and rarely ever really dig in to the settings for those websites; that goes for other sites like Facebook and Google, but today I was starting my Google+ ...

Ubuntu 9.10 – Print to PDFAs I work more with Ubuntu, I notice there’s a few quirks with it, and I was recently struck with a rather simple problem that turned in to a bigger problem. And what was more ...

Techie Review: iRulu 10” Android tablet
I have been throwing around the idea of buying a low-end android tablet to play with as a toy. To go so far as to think that I might take a cheap android tablet, strap ...

Digg Comes Full Circle; should BURY itself.A few months ago the social news website Digg was one of my favorite websites to visit and then they changed their design, function and overall feel for the entire site. Because of this design ...

The developer team over at Open Live Writer have been busy with trying to address several problems with blog authors trying to publish their posts. Recently the Open Live Writer development team have been busy trying to address problems with not being able to publish posts to WordPress blogs that utilize the HTTPS (SSL) connections. […]

The other day, it dawns on me that Microsoft has killed all their download links for Microsoft Windows Essentials 2012. This was a slight problem because I was going to get my son started with doing some video editing with Windows Movie Maker 2012, but the download links were gone. Luckily, I keep a lot […]

Since the death of Windows Live Writer, the Open Live Writer dev team has given it a new life and making small improvements over the past year. While there has been some improvements, the application is still has a lot of the old dependencies. Take for an example, in a recent forum post an user […]